A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 19,2001
New York Grass-Based Livestock Management And
Marketing Seminar To Be Conducted June 2-3
WARNERVILLE, N.Y. Jim
and Adele Hayes will conduct a
seminar on developing and man
aging a profitable grass-based
livestock enterprise. This full
weekend seminar will be held on
Sat. and Sun., June 2-3, at Sap
Bush Hollow Farm in Warner
ville, N.Y., near Cobleskill, one
hour west of Albany.
Jim and Adele Hayes are co
owners of Sap Bush Hollow
Farm, a diversified sustainable
farm where they have practiced
intensive rotational grazing since
1979. Their livestock enterprise
consists of approximately
100-125 ewes, a 170 percent pas
ture lamb crop, IS feeder steers,
an order-based pastured poultry
operation, 125 pastured laying
hens, 140 pastured turkeys, 70
geese, and 30 pigs. They market
their pasture-raised beef, lamb,
pork, and poultry from their
porch.
The Hayes’ have designed the
seminar to cover essential live
stock farming topics through
practical and applied lessons on
their farm. Sap Bush Hollow
Farm, although successful today,
has struggled and still struggles
today through many chapters of
tough development challenges,
with many mistakes and false
starts. Jim and Adele openly
share their success and failures
with good humor and 20-20
hindsight.
Jim Hayes is a recently retired
professor of animal science at
Syracuse University of New
York, Cobleskill. He is an enter
taining and thought-provoking
speaker at regional grazing, live
stock, and poultry conferences.
Adele Hayes has 23 years ex
perience working in rural devel
opment for Schoharie County.
After she retired six years ago in
a determined effort to make the
farm profitable, her business and
sales ability has changed the
color of their enterprise from “in
the red” to “in the black.” She is
a popular conference speaker on
poultry production and on her
methods of direct marketing.
This is the Hayes’ third annual
“Greener Pastures” seminar. The
seminar is for full and part-time
farmers involved with livestock,
as well as those starting an oper
ation. People interest in transi
tioning to grass-based livestock
farming or sustainable agricul
ture are encouraged to enroll.
Newcomers to agriculture are al
ways welcome.
Building Profit through
Greener Pastures is limited to 20
people, so advance registration is
required. Some scholarship as
sistance is available, and over
night accommodations in private
homes is possible. Please contact
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Outstanding Dairy Alumnus
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) James Hotter of Durham,
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Dairy Science Distinguished
Alumnus by Penn State’s College
of Agricultural Sciences.
Hotter, professor emeritus of
animal and nutrition sciences at
the University of New Hamp
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department of dairy and animal
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Holstein and Jersey dairy cattle,
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dairy ration balancing. Dry mat
ter intake is fundamentally im
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